Know Your Strategy, Pillar 3: Fundraising Basics, Step 8: Learn fundraising basics
As a nonprofit founder, you are committed to providing your community with vital resources and services. However, running a nonprofit organization requires more than just passion and dedication. You need to ensure that you have adequate funds to carry out your...
Know Your Strategy, Pillar 3: Fundraising Basics, Step 8: Learn fundraising basics
The end of the year is the best time to ask for money. In the last post, we talked about what an Introduction Appeal Letter is and why it’s a good strategy when you are new. If you haven’t taken a look at it, then I encourage you to go back to the post. Let’s...
Know Your Strategy, Pillar 3: Fundraising Basics, Step 8: Learn fundraising basics
I was a Board member of a new nonprofit when the concept of an Introduction Appeal Letter came to me. Getting donations was something that was now on our list of challenges. I had been in a larger nonprofit where we sent out appeal letters. My letters normally...
Fundraising Strategy Hierarchy, Grant Ready, Grants, Know Your Strategy, Pillar 3: Fundraising Basics, Step 8: Learn fundraising basics
My philosophy in everything I do with Founders is I look at everything through donor and funder perspectives. So everything I design has the nonprofit in mind but approaches the task from donor and funder perspectives. Today I’m discussing the details of being...
Grant Ready, Know Your Strategy, Pillar 3: Fundraising Basics, Step 8: Learn fundraising basics
I find when Founders have misconceptions about nonprofits and grant writing, they make some serious mistakes. When I was writing grants, these were the mistakes Founders made and the misconceptions that led to those mistakes. Understanding these misconceptions is the...